Euthanasia advocate rues Silk Road shutdown

SYDNEY: Prominent Australian right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke on Friday said the shutdown of black market website Silk Road will have a devastating impact on people who use it to obtain euthanasia drugs. Nitschke, the head of Exit International who has campaigned on euthanasia issues for more than a decade, said a lot of people used the market place to source reliable quantities of the premier end-of-life drug Nembutal.